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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...
Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> writes: > Any pointers to SYSV make? There's an O'Reilly book -- other than that, the GNU Make info pages have a section on differences with SYSV make. > > OTOH, if we went with a > > makefile-maker system like preheat uses, I could see us being able to > > support either SYSV or BSD make without too much problems. > > Could do. I don't have sufficient free time to look at preheat if it's > completely undocumented. But if you've got docs that can get me started > then I'll give it a go ASAP. Heh. Well, maybe you should hold out for a bit. It's pretty much undocumented at the moment. There is some inline documentation but I need to make separate documents for the SGML editor stuff and the preheat file format. > > Even if we can't, I would like to be sure that we are at least > > consistent between each other in the jade -V and -i switches that we > > pass to indicate the output format. > > Absolutely. Do you think I should just adapt the *BSD ones? It seems like you have a wider install base than I do ... :) > The problem was, while I could pass command line flags to the PNG -> EPS > conversion process to double the density (and thereby halve the image > size), this doesn't work for the PDF stuff, because the PDF and HTML > formats share the same image file. Either I shrink the PDF file (and > then the HTML output looks wrong), or I had to find a way to get DocBook > / TeX to scale the image for me -- preferably without forcing the author > to write " ... scale='50' ... " for every single image. I would use two different suffixes, say, .halfsize.eps versus .eps I would guess? > > > Then redefine the Graphic handling in the stylesheet, like so; > > > > > > (define ($graphic$ fileref > > > > [...] > > > > See, in preheat I can't do things like this since I can't rely on > > specific DSSSL customizations. > > preheat has to be able to point to a DSSSL stylesheet though, right? Right. > As it stands, if you process the FreeBSD docs through Norm's stylesheets > they come out OK. Some of the images will be too big, and a few other > bits and pieces will be off, but it works. Yah, that's pretty good. I have onShore Development specific customizations to deal with. If we can standarize the <stylesheet>#foo and -ifoo and -Vfoo (and I even use a little -Vfoo=bar but that's openjade and docbook only, for forcing the suffix to be .html and such, there's always another way to do it), that would be excellent. -- .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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